Quick question on template specializations

[xonara]

Ok, if I have a template like this: template <class T, class Y> class myclass { ... };
And I have a template specialization like this: template <> class myclass <char> { ... };

How will the compiler know whether I'm referring to T or Y in the template specialization?

[firedraco]

Have you tried compiling it and seeing if it gives you any errors?

I don't think it would work though...unless you assigned a default type to Y.

[jsmith]

Hint: your code doesn't compile as is. The compiler error should be obvious to fix, and once you fix it, the answer to your question is obvious.

[helios]

Well, I learnt something new today. I will probably forget it in six or so hours due to limited application, though. Just like I did with ... and ... .

[xonara]

"main.cpp:33: error: wrong number of template arguments (1, should be 2)"

Huh. So I have to explicitly define in the template specialization what every template parameter has to be. WHY didn't I think of that, it's blatantly obvious >_> . Thanks anyway :P

[jsmith]

You are only partially specializing. So you still have to leave the second parameter templated (or the first, whichever you want).